If you have a soft spot in your heart for those who live and work, for however short period of their young lives, in inner city BikeMessangerLand and can relate to how they feel alive as much because they get to dress down everyday of their lives and feed their senses --- this sweet movie conveys the sense of their world. It also is a bit of a fairy tale view, real lives in this world and typically a lot more messy and complex. But like the movie 'Whale Rider', it's a nice touchstone tale of a subculture, in this case the thriving creative community in S.F. at turn of this past century.
If you are not into this world, are an suburbanite or professional or military or any other profession or life style that is not destined, for better or worse, for a creative life, you may resent or even love to hate these people and their world. My view -- if this movie turns you off, you may have found the area of yourself that you need to work on in terms of tolerance and appreciation of how no one lifestyle fits all. The bigger picture in this film shows how in this creative community, like all communities, people struggle and on occasion win, occasion lose. The difference is just what they struggle with, and in this world, it is with ideas as much as relationships. It reveals how many dead-ends there are in both, as well as breakthroughs. At times the way this is revealed is a bit fake, but if you look at the film through the prism of fable -- it's visually artful and a uplifting human story.
If you are not into this world, are an suburbanite or professional or military or any other profession or life style that is not destined, for better or worse, for a creative life, you may resent or even love to hate these people and their world. My view -- if this movie turns you off, you may have found the area of yourself that you need to work on in terms of tolerance and appreciation of how no one lifestyle fits all. The bigger picture in this film shows how in this creative community, like all communities, people struggle and on occasion win, occasion lose. The difference is just what they struggle with, and in this world, it is with ideas as much as relationships. It reveals how many dead-ends there are in both, as well as breakthroughs. At times the way this is revealed is a bit fake, but if you look at the film through the prism of fable -- it's visually artful and a uplifting human story.